It shall be unlawful for any person to give
any exhibition or performance for money or to maintain any place of
public amusement in the Village until such person shall have obtained
a license therefor and shall have paid to the Village the following
fees:
A. Circuses. For every circus performance, not less than
$25 nor more than $100 per day to be fixed by the Mayor.
B. Curiosities, freaks. For conducting in any tent, building
or other place temporarily used for the exhibition of natural or artificial
curiosities, freaks or attractions, $5 per day.
C. Theatrical performances. For any theatrical performance to which an admission fee is charged, not wholly conducted by a local society or association and not conducted upon premises licensed under Subsection
D or
E, the sum of $10 for each performance.
D. Buildings. Any person maintaining a building solely
for theatrical performances or other public exhibitions shall pay
to the Village the sum of $100 per year.
E. Museums, menageries, etc. Any person desiring to carry
on any place wholly devoted to the purpose of a museum, menagerie
or exhibition of natural or artificial curiosities and theatrical
representations shall pay to the Village the sum of $100 per year.
F. Carnivals. For conducting or operating a carnival,
the sum of $5 per day.
G. Fortunetellers, etc. For fortunetellers and the like,
the sum of $10 per year.
H. Bowling alleys, shooting galleries. For bowling alleys
and shooting galleries, the sum of $10 per year.
I. Other amusements. For merry-go-rounds, riding galleries
and other amusements not otherwise provided for, for which an admission
is charged, such fee as the Village Board of Trustees in its discretion
shall deem proper. All other forms of amusement or entertainment in
a public place shall be subject to approval and license by the Village
Board of Trustees.
The annual licenses provided for by §
48-15D,
E,
G and
H shall expire on the January 1 subsequent to their being granted, and such license fees shall be payable in advance on January 1 of each year or upon the date of the application therefor for the balance of the year up to the next first of January and shall not be prorated.
No building or place shall be licensed for any
public exhibition or performance of any character until it shall have
been inspected by the Chief of Police of the Village with reference
to its means of exit and to its safety as a gathering place for an
audience and until the Chief of Police shall have filed a written
report with the Mayor recommending the building or place as a safe
place for a public gathering with safe and sufficient means of exit;
nor until such building or place shall have been inspected by the
Chief of the Fire Department of the Village as to its freedom from
danger from fire and as to its equipment or means for the extinguishment
of fire and until the Chief of the Fire Department shall have filed
with the Mayor a written report recommending such building or place
as a safe place for a public gathering by reasons of its freedom from
danger from fire and its protection against fire.
Every license required by this article shall
be issued and signed by the Mayor of the Village and shall specify
the fee to be paid therefor, the name of the licensee and the date
of its expiration and shall be countersigned by the Village Clerk,
who shall keep a record thereof and of the amount of the fee to be
paid therefor. Upon presentation of such license to the Treasurer
of the Village, so signed and countersigned, and upon the payment
to the Treasurer of such fee, the Treasurer shall endorse thereon
his receipt for the license fee, and such license shall not take effect
until the receipt of the Treasurer shall have been endorsed thereon.
All buildings and places licensed for public
exhibitions shall be at all times subject to the inspection and regulation
both of the Chief of Police and of the Chief of the Fire Department
with reference to their safety, their proper means of exit, their
freedom from danger from fire and their protection against fire; and
all licenses shall be granted only upon the understanding that they
shall at once be revoked upon the filing with the Mayor of the report
of either the Chief of Police or the Chief of the Fire Department
that the licensed building or place is, for any reason therein stated,
unsafe for a public gathering.
Licenses for conducting or operating a carnival
shall be granted only to organizations or societies and shall not
be granted for a period in excess of six consecutive days. Licenses
for carnivals shall be so issued that a period of at least 14 days
must elapse between the conclusion of one carnival and the commencement
of another. No organization or society may obtain a license to conduct
or operate more than one carnival in any thirty-day period.